The Great Barrier Reef

From Sydney we were off to Cairns. On our first full day there we booked a trip to snorkel and scuba dive at The Great Barrier Reef. We got an early start to allow for a full day of exploring.


The trip out was about an hour long. Nancy and Barry decided to scuba at the first stop and Tara and I snorkled.

We spent 2 hours at our first stop. While we ate lunch we moved to another area reef for our afternoon stop.

Tara and I getting instructions on our dive.

Practising breathing through the mouth pieces on the back of the boat.

Going through all of the pre-dive tests with our guide.

This was the '80s fish because of all the neon colours on it.

We could see little nemo fish in lots of the coral like this.

Check out those suits.

More snorkeling after our scuba adventure.

If you ever get a chance to go to the reef do it, it was absolutely amazing.